Every time i feel the spirit: Religious experience and ritual in an African American Church

Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-222

  Nelson, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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